Word: blackguardly
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...Burton led the expedition). He made the pilgrimage to Mecca in disguise, went to Salt Lake City in the reign of Brigham Young, made an engineering trip to Iceland, wrote many a book on erotic craft & customs of the Orient. Some spoke of him as "ruffian Dick" and "that blackguard Burton," but nobody ever called him a coward or a bore. The East India Company was glad to get rid of such an embarrassingly spectacular servant. Her Majesty's Government grudgingly gave him poor, unimportant consular posts?Fernando Po, Damascus, Trieste?afraid of what he would do. In his last...
Their obvious intent was to please their Governor. The obvious intent of the Herald Tribune's headline was to blackguard...
...year-old 21st Earl of Enroll, last of a line of Hereditary Lord High Constables of Scotland dating from 1315. He was roundly called a "blackguard" in London, last week, by Judge Sir Maurice Hill who assessed $15,000 damages against him as the corespondent in a successful divorce suit brought by Major Cyril S. R. Hill. "Mrs. Hill," said Judge Hill (no relation), "is a woman of the lowest character and a liar, perhaps due to the influence of the corespondent...
...three of them ridiculous in the acid comments of the fourth, snow-haired dean of the profession. Woven through the ridicule is the dilemma. Shall the great doctor who has discovered a quick cure for tuberculosis apply it to a worthy, unsuccessful fellow man-of-medicine, or to a blackguard artist who can paint great pictures. He cannot cure both; his perplexity is enhanced by his passion for the artist's wife...
Attorney General Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg, sponsor of the Trade Unions Bill, was called during the final debate, "You blackguard! You liar!" by Laborite James Maxton, whom the Speaker forthwith suspended...